Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oratory of a mild-mannered gentleman from Manhattan. Some of them had read his most famed book, Jefferson and Hamilton. Some of them were in the habit of reading the editorials he writes for the New York Evening World. But few of them had realized what a whacking fine speaker he is. Last week, when nationally important Democrats met again in Washington, they elected the mild-mannered Manhattanite-Orator Claude Ger-nade Bowers, native of Indiana-to make the party's keynote speech at Houston next month...
...home had not diminished. His constituents were disgusted with his political associate Mayor William Hale (-'Big Bill") Thompson, and some of them had determined to nominate a Congressman of their own race, a Negro. But Thompsonism could not touch him nor could race pride overcome so long and fine a record as his. Mr. Madden was comfortably renominated. Appointment of a Negro to succeed him was expected, the first Negro to go to Congress in 25 years, the first ever from the North...
...cheerful, but the proboscis monkey from Malaysia and the howling monkey from the tropics are a pair of supercilious snobs. Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars of the N. Y. Zoological Garden has kept a howling monkey for three years only by pampering and coddling it, keeping it in a fine special cage, with "Vitaglass" windows to admit the ultraviolet...
Laymen. Publishers also heard fine words from the mouths of Rev. Samuel Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp.; Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher; Mayor James J. Walker of New York City; M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Corp. The only backslapper at the convention was a onetime blackface comedian named Frank Colton who was hired to parade through corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria as Maj. Amos Hoople, comic strip character syndicated...
...Sophomores and Juniors planning to return next year are reminded that today is the last day on which their list of courses, for the first half of 1928-29 may be filed without liability to a fine...